Saturday, February 28, 2009

coulter proves she doesn't understand the war in Afghanistan

Coulter attacks Obama over Afghanistan: Putting more troops there is ‘insane.’

During her speech at CPAC today, right-wing loon Ann Coulter said we owe “a thank you to George Bush for keeping us so safe.” That comment earned a rousing ovation from the audience of conservative activists. Coulter then proceeded to claim Obama is continuing Bush’s national security policies, before attacking him over Afghanistan:

The one real problem with Obama on national security is… he’s putting more troops into Afghanistan, which is insane. This has been the focus of the terrorists — they’re all streaming across into Iraq, where we can win. Now it’s gonna be in Afghanistan, which could well be another Vietnam.

So for politically correct reasons, we’re moving the focus of the war on terrorism to a very bad place for us. The Russians couldn’t win there. Peter the Great couldn’t win there. Oh, but maybe the messiah can win there, ok.

(Think Progress)
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Apparently, Coulter thinks that we want to take over Afghanistan and make it ours, like Russia or Peter the Great did. I guess she doesn't understand that we're fighting the terrorists there - not trying to annex the country.